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Alpine Linux is a lightweight non-commercial Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. Although not really intended for a desktop audience, with some tweaks it can be made a fully functional Desktop OS.
Read Alpine Linux on the desktop: awesome feat or fool's errand?.
A container can be as small as 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. It uses its own package manager called APK.
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Based OnLEAF Project
Default Desktop EnvironmentN/A
Package ManagerAlpine Package Keeper
Init-SystemOpenRC
Release ScheduleRolling
OS FamilyGNU/Linux
Main Usageembedded systems, routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances
OriginNorway
Official Supported Architecturesamd64, i386, armhf, aarch64, ppc64
Release TypeBinary
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